4 of Family from Mangaluru Dies in Tragic Road Accident in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia : A tragic accident has claimed the lives of four members of a Mangalorean family, including a 3-month-old infant, in a car accident on their way from Qatar to Madinah to perform Umrah. The accident occurred in Zalfa on the outskirts of Riyadh on Wednesday night.
The deceased have been identified as Hiba (29), daughter of Shameem and Zarina from Uladangadi Thokur, her husband Muhammad Rameez (34), and their children Aarush (3) and Raha (3 months). Additionally, Hiba's sister Shabnam's daughter Fatima (19), who was also in the car, sustained serious injuries and is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Riyadh. Fortunately, Hiba's sister Lubna's son Isa (4), who was also present in the car, escaped unharmed.
The family had commenced their Umrah journey after performing Fajr Namaz on Tuesday. They had reached Riyadh on Tuesday night, stayed at a family house, and resumed their journey towards Umrah from Riyadh on Wednesday morning.
Their car collided with a road divider at Zulfa, causing it to veer off the road and overturn. Tragically, Rameez, Hiba, and one child lost their lives on the spot, while another child succumbed to injuries in the hospital. Fatima sustained serious injuries, while Isa miraculously escaped unharmed.
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Indonesia's Java Island, felt in Jakarta
Jakarta, Apr 27: A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the southern part of Indonesia's main island of Java on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or significant property damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck 102 kilometers (63 miles) south of Banjar city at a depth of 68.3 kilometers (42.4 miles). There was no tsunami warning.
High-rises in the capital Jakarta swayed for around a minute and two-story homes shook strongly in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung and in Jakarta's satellite cities of Depok, Tangerang, Bogor and Bekasi. The quake was also felt in other cities in West Java, Yogyakarta and East Java province, according to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency.
The agency warned of possible aftershocks.
Earthquakes are frequent across the sprawling archipelago nation, but they are rarely felt in Jakarta.
Indonesia, a seismically active archipelago of 270 million people, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on major geological faults known as the Pacific “Ring of Fire.”
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake in 2022 killed at least 602 people in West Java's Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia's Aceh province.
